On Bishop Burnet's Being Set On Fire In His Closet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHII JJKK| From that dire ra bane to Sarum's pride | A |
| Which broke his schemes and laid his friends aside | A |
| He talks and writes that Pop'ry will return | B |
| And we and he and all his works will burn | B |
| What touch'd himself was almost fairly prov'd | C |
| Oh far from Britain be the rest remov'd | C |
| For as of late he meant to bless the age | D |
| With flagrant Prefaces of party rage | D |
| O'er wrought with passion and the subject's weight | E |
| Lolling he nodded in his elbow seat | F |
| Down fell the candle Grease and Zeal conspire | G |
| Heat meets with heat and Pamphlets burn their Sire | G |
| Here crawls a Preface on its half burn'd maggots | H |
| And there an Introduction brings its faggots | H |
| Then roars the Prophet of the Northern Nation | I |
| Scorch'd by a flaming speech on Moderation | I |
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| Unwarn'd by this go on the realm to fright | J |
| Thou Briton vaunting in thy second sight | J |
| In such a Ministry you safely tell | K |
| How much you'd suffer if Religion fell | K |
Thomas Parnell
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